My first Formal complaint to riot. :*(

thesmilingdemo··2 votes·301 views

Originally i wrote nearly 2 pages extolling the virtues of riot and expressing my heart break over this issue but I've decided to err on the side of brevity.

Dear Riot. I am a jungler main and support secondary, new draft mode has forced me to support every single time. what gives?

I understand that not many people like to play the role and honestly i don't mind stepping into that roll most of the time. but 20+ times in a row? I can't begin to express how much this has leached the joy not only of the role out of me, but for the game as a whole.

I would agree that the new draft system is better for most people then the old one, and in truth i was beyond excited at its introduction. Sadly This initial enthusiasm has gradually given way to resentment.

Perhaps you could create a secret point system that awards players for continually having their 2nd role picked... i.e after being forced to play you're secondary role 10 times you get priority on your primary role for the next match. I mean something... anything...

At this point I would gladly wait 10 minutes in que just to be able to play jungle again.

I don't know. Its clearly a thorny issue. All i hope is that things will not continue the way the do. there is only so many more games I can play as Soraka before i go bananas.

-Best wishes. A loyal fan.

4 Comments

disregardable1 votes

You don't want to play support? Then don't queue support. That simple.

WukongMain1 votes

but then they may get that other role instead of jungle.

Long story short this loyal fan wants to play their PRIMARY role. and currently hasn't gotten it 20+ times in a roll. The whole point of primary roles is that well, its the one you want the most. Clearly this system is flawed, and needs some tweaking.

How this ever got out of PBE amazes me. And scares me. If this left PBE and made it to live....what else will be released with such flaws......

Riot, Your game is at stake here. Clearly something needs to be changed.

LostFr0st1 votes

Has nothing to do with it 'getting out of pbe' since the pbe testers are a smaller group that often just select fill so that they can even get into a game with a queue time of less than 2+ hours.
The only short queue there is blind pick.
Nobody can even queue up realistically for dynamic ranked or normals; they'll never get a game. Even the bot game queue times are 15+ minutes.

Malhammers1 votes

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You don't want to play support? Then don't queue support. That simple.

I am in the same boat as the OP. It is not as easy as "dont queue support". If jungler is our best/preferred spot and support is our second best spot, then obviously we are going to queue as those two. But its true...you ALWAYS get support. Don't put support as our secondary? So you're saying we should put a role we are inferior at as our secondary in hopes we get jungle? No. We are putting our top two roles. Now, I have rolled the dice a few times as jungle primary mid secondary (assuming mid is MUCH higher demand so I am likely to get jungle). This works like 80% of the time, but the other 20% make for a toxic game if you get mid and you don't do as well as you otherwise could have.

The argument "dont queue as ____" doesn't work in the new system if you play support at all...because regardless of what you put for your second option you will get support 95% of the time. Basically what I and the OP (presumably) are saying is it is frustrating to basically be forced to support every game if you are not as skilled at at least 3 roles.

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